Games That Are So Good You Bought Then Twice

[MightyMole]

Let's see here... Do remakes/remasters count? Operating under the assumption that they do:

Bioshock (Xbox 360, Steam)
Bioshock 2 (Xbox 360, Steam)
Blue Dragon (Xbox 360 x2)
Borderlands (Xbox 360, Steam)
Duke Nukem Forver (Xbox 360, Steam)
Left 4 Dead 2 (Xbox 360, Steam)
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Nintendo 64, Gamecube, 3DS)
The Orange Box (Xbox 360 x2)
Portal (Xbox 360 x2, Steam)
Portal 2 (Xbox 360, Steam)
Silent Hill 2 (PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360)
Silent Hill 3 (PS2, Xbox 360)
Silent Hill 4 (PS2, Xbox)
Team Fortress 2 (Xbox 360 x2, Steam x5)

For a little bit of an explanation, for the 2K games (Bioshock, Duke Nukem, Etc.) I owned them for the 360, then during the summer sale the "2K Collection Pack" was on sale, and I really wanted the Civilization games and viewed the PC version of other games as an added bonus.

I bought Blue Dragon used, then saw it on sale new on Amazon for $1 so I picked it up.

I got L4D2 on the 360 the year it was released and recently was gifted it on Steam by some TF2 buddies.

I just love OoT, and just bought it to be able to play it again really.

I lost my first copy of The Orange Box so picked it up again for $20 as we were still playing TF2 on it regularly, then I found my previous copy so now I own 2.

I own Portal on the 360 via The Orange Box, then got it free one day when Steam was offering it.

I own Portal 2 for the 360 and a friend of mine bought the PS3 version and gave me his Steam redemption code.

I bought Silent Hill 2 and 4 for the Xbox a few years back, then a couple of years ago wanted to pick up Silent Hill 3, found a listing on eBay selling used PS2 copies of SH2, 3 and 4 for less then most listings were selling SH3 alone, so I picked it up. Then I picked up the HD Collection for the 360.

And with TF2, it was in The Orange Box, and I'm really a sucker for the PC version so when it went F2P I bought some keys on some different accounts and use them to idle with (They also come in handy for Steam events like the Christmas coal and stuff)

 

[mirage202]

Operation Flashpoint 4 times.
1st = Lost
2/3 = Still have them, one is original, other is GOTY with expansions.
4th = part of ARMA X (Technically free with it, but still counts).

Goldeneye(N64). Honestly dont remember how many times I have owned that game, sold it, then wanted it again.

 

[DVS Storm]

I bought my first The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion for the 360 when it came out. About a year after that the disk broke and I bought a new one. Then a while later when the GOTY edition came out, I bought that too. And last summer I bought it from Steam for my PC. That makes four copies in total. I really do love the game. I've also bought some other games for my PC that I have had on 360, like Mass Effects and Fallout 3.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Chrono Trigger, bought the original SNES version, the PSX version, and the DS version.
Also Fable, bought the original on Xbox and The Lost Chapters on PC.
Oh and Marvel Ultimate Alliance, bought the PS2 version, the Xbox360 version, and the Xbox360 Gold Edition which turned out to be a waste of money.

 

[Gingernerd]

Persona 3, Persona 3 FES and P3P. 3X P3!

 

[thejackyl]

Battlefield: Cad Company 2 PS3 and PC. My friend had recently bought a PS3 and this game, and I bought it to play with him. 2 weeks later he shotguns the console. About a month later we buy it again for PC, and he promptly goes back to WoW and the new CoD (the first one that came out after BC2)

Resident Evil 2: Bought it with my N64, bought it again on Gamecube so that I had ALL the RE games on Gamecube.

LoZ: A Link to the Past: bought it for SNES for $1, bought it again for GBA

That's it unless you count remakes

 

[goodman528]

Company of heroes, + all expansions. Borrowed from friend, then pirated, then bought on disk, then pirated again, then bought for steam.

Civ 4, pirated, bought on disk, pirated again, bought again.

Jagged alliance 2, pirated + bought multiple times.

Hearts of iron 2 and 3 + expansions, also pirated + bought multiple times.

Max Payne 1 and 2, pirated first then bought twice.

Football manager 2009, pirated, bought, then bought as gift for friend.

PES 4, bought first, then pirated to play on USB.

Some games are just worth the money, while most others you just pirate, play a couple of hours, and never touch it again, and think it was a complete waste of time and bandwidth pirating it in the first place. Yes I know I can get demo instead of pirating, but it's better to get the whole thing. Really pirated games offers a lot of advantages a bought game doesn't have. The ability to play without disk and no internet connection, the ability to keep the game installed on a USB stick and just plug and play (Warcraft 3 / DOTA / Starcraft). Also community tech support is sometimes better for a pirated game then for the actual bought version... ... the Chinese version of Warcraft 3 for example.

Seriously developers need to provide better functionality to stop piracy, not just shove piracy = stealing campaigns down our throats. It would be good if all PC games can be installed multiple times on whatever disk you want and offer true plug and play, and a green install with no unnecessary add-ons, and don't have ridiculously high requirements.

 

[risue]

i actually bought the witcher 3 times, almost bought the witcher 2 twice. bought ME1 twice

 

[Scorpid]

Fallout 1 and 2 I first bought both of them on their respective release dates, then i probably let a friend borrow them or something and bought them again as a bundle at walmart, then later when i got a new computer it was incompatible so i bought them both off Good Old Games.com where it sits today in my computer. I love those games ^_^

 

[LadyTiamat]

psychonauts, baten katios, and tales of symphonia

i sold them when i was young and stupid and when i wanted to play them again i rebought them

although i am tempted to buy king of dragon pass on pc (i currently have on ipod)

 

[TilMorrow]

Hmm, well...
3 x Half-Life 2 (PCx2 and Xbox)
2 x MGS3 (PS2x2)
2 x Half-Life 2 EP1 (PC)
2 x LoZ:OoT (Nintendo and 3DS)
2 x SW Battlefront 2 (PSP and PS2)
2 x Skyrim (PC and PS3(Exchanged it for DR2))
2 x Plants vs Zombies (Xbox 360 and iPod)

And thats all I can remember.

 

[Launcelot111]

I just got my 3rd copy of Persona 3 (regular on PS2, Portable on PSP, and FES on PSN). I also got copies of Mass Effect 2 for 360 and PS3 (bought it new the second time once the price came down for all the DLC). Also Majora's Mask for N64 and then for Virtual Console

 

[Nimzabaat]

3 copies of Alpha Protocol. Whenever I lend it out, I can never get it back.
Also bought Planescape Torment twice.

 

[R3dF41c0n]

The first game to come to mind is the original Deus Ex. I bought it once many years ago in disk form and recently on Steam. I also bought the PC version of Mass Effect then the Xbox version about six months later. I own ME 2 on PC and Xbox but the PC copy was a gift from EA. I might get ME3 on PC when the price comes down then I'll have the whole series on both platforms.

 

[Squidbulb]

I considered buying Dragon Quest IX again, but only to have another save slot.

 

[Sparklyfingers]

I've bought Mario Kart: Double Dash for Game Cube three times, as it happens...

Once as it came out when I was living in Norway.
Once when I was living in the US and had a US GC.
And once again here in Britain, though used.

 

[Anthony Wells]

fallout 3. once on ps3. GOTY edition on pc. the jak and daxter series. the sly cooper series. Infamous. ace combat 5. Need for Speed most wanted. ace combat 4. mass effect 2. Call of Duty Modernwarfare 2(gasp.)


Note: the only reason the jak and daxter and the sly cooper series were rebought was because my ps2 died so i got the collections on the ps3.

 

[IrateDonnie]

Bioshock,I own it for all three systems. I also own two copies of The Orange Box for 360,& one for pc.Plus I bought TF2 (before it was FTP) for my other 2 Steam accounts. I re-bought MW2 for the pc(steam sales ;p) after my 360 disk broke from loaning it to the wrong person...I tried MP twice & deleted it(pc version=hacker heaven)